Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Valuing emotions
Combining philosophy, psychoanalysis and anthropology, this work explores the complexity and importance of man. It places emotions at the centre of human identity, life and value, and examines the... (more)
The sources of moral agency: Essays in moral psychology and Freudian theory
The essays in this collection are concerned with the psychology of moral agency. They focus on moral feelings and moral motivation, and seek to understand the operations and origins of these... (more)
Oedipus, Philosopher
Argues that if the logic of the Oedipus myth were subjected to analysis with the tools of anthropology, comparative mythology and narratology, it might invalidate the approach to the Oedipus Complex... (more)
Male Fantasies: Volume 2: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror
This is the second volume of Theweleit's extraordinary study of the fantasies of some of the men centrally involved in the rise of Nazism. The author develops his account by focusing on the... (more)
Intimate Communications
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Clinical Stories and their Translations
Clinical Stories and Their Translations proposes and illustrates via numerous case examples, the utility of a psychology-informed ethnographic method of clinical thinking, teaching, supervision and... (more)
Female Homosexuality: Choice Without Volition, A Psychoanalytic Study
This text describes the analytic treatment of eight female homosexuals with common symptoms of incomplete body image and unconscious denial of differences between the sexes. It details the recurring... (more)
Between Author and Reader: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Writing and Reading
Addresses the questions of what author and reader want from each other, and uses psychoanalysis to study the acts of writing and reading using the empathic and introspective methods of the working... (more)
Psychological anthropology reconsidered
This text reviews developments in psychological anthropology, and argues for an eclectic approach that allows room for psychoanalytic, dialogical, and social perspectives on personality and culture.... (more)
Fantasy and reality in history
Integrating history, political psychology, and psychoanalysis, this study examines the psycho-sexual conflicts of charismatic political leaders, including Gladstone and Zhirinovsky. It explores... (more)
First Things: The maternal imaginary in literature, art and psychoanalysis
This study combines close readings with theoretical concerns, in an examination of the many forms taken by the mythic of phantasmic mother in literary, psychoanalytical and artistic representations.... (more)
Subject and Agency in Psychoanalysis: Which is to be Master?
Psychoanalysis works with words - words spoken by a subject who asks that the analyst listens. This is the belief that underlies Moran's exploration of a central problem in psychoanalytic theory -... (more)
Psychoanalytic literary criticism
Provides examples of the literary criticism which has emerged from the conjunction between psychoanalysis and post-structuralism. The book defines concepts and methods by tracing the role the story... (more)
Platonism and Positivism in Psychology
In this classic text, originally published as 'What Man Has Made of Man', Adler shows that psychology is - simultaneously - a particular social science, and a branch of philosophical knowledge. He... (more)
The Castration of Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism and Feminism
The authors combine the disparate traditions of psychoanalysis, postmodernism and feminism the create a provocative, unified and tightly woven perspective that transcends the misogyny implicit in... (more)
In and out of the mind: Greek images of the tragic self
Arguing that Greek tragic language connects images of consciousness (even male consciousness) with the darkness attributed both to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and... (more)